Just a week ago I was busy calling for EU travel sanctions to be extended to all of Zimbabwe's ministers. My reasoning was simple, try to curb government expenditure on travels in order to save more money for services.
Barely a week later a British minister is calling for more sanctions but not of the kind I envisaged. Peter Hain wants to place international companies that do business with Zimbabwe under sanctions. The last thing we Zimbabwean people need is for such threats to investors to be bandied about with such abandon.
These sanctions have the express aim of hindering Zimbabwe's economic activities on the global market and have absolutely no value except to throw as much spanners as the British can into the works of Zimbabwe's economy.
It seems the British aim is to curb Zimbabwe's growing independence of their neo-colonial economic establishment. When British companies were busy looting Zimbabwe, they were facilitating their being listed on such international bourses as the London Stock Exchange.
Of course we know very, very well about the kith and kin factor in British mentality when comes to our rights as Zimbabweans. We witnessed it during Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence (UDI). It seems that kith and kin factor is still at play today - if any companies are going to benefit from looting Zimbabwe let it be British kith and kin, that seems to be their thinking.
Why hasn't Peter Hain proposed sanctions on Barclays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank which are the two biggest banks propping up the Zanu-PF run Zimbabwean economy. What about other Western linked companies such as Anglo American, Zimplats, Rio Tinto, Murowa Diamonds, etc which are major players in the Zimbabwe economy. They do pay taxes and royalties some of which find their way to the defense forces don't they? Unless of course Peter Hain has been secretly advising them to evade Zimbabwean taxes.
Even a bat, with all its blindness, can see that the sanctions being proposed by him have got absolutely nothing to do with upholding the rights of Zimbabweans. Rather they are more about putting as many obstacles as possible in the path of challengers to Western domination of the Zimbabwean economy.
Of course they know they cannot stop the process of economic de-colonisation but they obviously want to go out kicking and screaming as much as they can.
The wisdom that, for the long term, it would be better to cooperate and help mitigate against the oppression of the past is lost to them.
My opinion has got nothing to do with taking sides in Zimbabwe politics. All our politicians are crooks, cheats and embezzlers as far as I am concerned. They are going into politics not to provide services to us and uphold our rights, but rather to get rich as quickly as they can.
Our politicians by themselves, have done a lot of damage to Zimbabwe as it is. But then you do not burn down your entire village because you don't like the headman. Where will you and your on family live if the village is gone.
I will never agree to measures that destroy Zimbabwe, while purporting to be targeting Mugabe. You do not burn down the granary to get rid of the rats. We do not want to rebuild Zimbabwe from scratch after Mugabe is gone. We want to have a country fully functioning, including having a strong defense force.
We do not want a Libya scenario. With NATO help, the Libyans destroyed law and order because they didn't like Gadhafi. Aren't they being run by lawless militias now?
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